West Bengal Tourism
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Experience Durga Puja at its heart and discover the culture, heritage, landscapes and journeys of West Bengal — through Puja circuits, destinations, itineraries and practical visitor information.
Durga Puja tourism
A journey through celebration
For five days the city becomes the exhibition. Durga Puja is the most direct way to encounter Bengal's cultural identity — its neighbourhoods, its artistry, its food, its heritage architecture and the community life that holds the festival together.
Around the festival lies the rest of West Bengal: the river towns of Hooghly, the terracotta belt of Bankura, the university town of Santiniketan, the mangroves of the Sundarbans and the tea country of the north.
Orientation
Plan your Puja journey
Puja Circuits
Curated routes connecting selected celebrations and neighbourhoods.
Explore Pandals
The directory of community and household pujas, in Bengal and abroad.
Suggested Itineraries
Paced routes from a single evening to a week across the state.
Events & Programmes
Ceremonies, walks and cultural programmes during the season.
Travel Information
Reaching the state, moving through the city and travelling between districts.
Tourism Concierge
Work through circuits, destinations and itineraries step by step.
For visitors
Experience Durga Puja
Four ways a visitor encounters the festival — from the largest installations to the kitchens and workshops that make them possible.
Marquee pandals
The large thematic installations, each built by a named artist and dismantled within days of immersion.
Neighbourhood celebrations
Para pujas where the fair, the kitchen and the evening programme belong to a single street.
Ritual and performance
Anjali, sandhi puja and the dhak, alongside recital programmes held in the evenings.
Food and craft
Bhog kitchens, seasonal stalls and the workshops that supply the idols and their ornament.
Destinations
Beyond the Puja
Heritage towns, river settlements, forests, hills and coast — all within reach of Kolkata, all in West Bengal, India.
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Concierge suggestions are generated from the sample content on this portal for interface development, and are not official travel advice.